“I’m ready to brawl.”

Imagine your mother saying that … and directing it squarely at you (perhaps with finger archly pointed; loving this Reuters photo). If you’re Christina Crawford, you pretty much already experienced the sentiment. But on the air?

That’s what Liliane Bettencourt, the largest stakeholder in L’Oreal and one of the world’s wealthiest people, said about her daughter yesterday on Europe 1 radio, according to WWD. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers has been attempting to force her mother to undergo medical examination “to ascertain her mental acuity,” according to the fashion trade daily. This several years into a legal feud after Bettencourt Meyers went after photog Francois-Marie Banier, who received assets from the 88-year-old Bettencourt worth $1.4 billion.

Bettencourt’s having none of it. “If one abuses me, it’s that I allow myself to be abused,” she said. “So much the better for me. Let me live. … If I think that I’ve given too much, you know what I do? I laugh.” —Krista Jennings